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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MouseTime (was Re: CBM and upgrade paths)
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Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 03:45:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 11 03:45:24 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Nov-87 22:25:10 EST
References: <8711092058.AA24245@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
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Summary: This is a test; ignore it. This is a test; ignore it.

In article <8711092058.AA24245@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>	None of the current crop of hard disk controllers feels at all
>>right.  None of the clock/calendar accessories seem right.  LIVE seems okay
>
>	I dunno, my prize from the badge killer demo contest was MouseTimes,
>a clock-calendar that plugs into the second mouse port of my A1000.  It 
>works great! (and doesn't use the parallel port!).  No more typing in the
>date everytime I reboot...
>
	I had the MouseTime in mind when I wrote that statement.  MouseTime
doesn't report the seconds (+- 30 secs resolution), makes Dark Castle toss
its cookies (okay, this is a non-problem, but it had me puzzled for a few
minutes), and you have to cycle power on it to get it back if you disable
it.  I'm afraid to try it with my prototype 3D glasses driver.  I also have
to install something on my already-full startup disk to read it.

	I want one that auto-configs (I think the auto-config spec provides
for this sort of thing), and is invisible to all other peripherals, whatever
they may be.  It seems like such a beast could be put onto the unused board
space of a hard disk controller or some such.

	Am I being unreasonable?

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